The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Cambridge Law Handbooks)

The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Cambridge Law Handbooks)Comparative law is a common subject-matter of research and teaching in many universities around the world, and the twenty-first century has aptly been termed 'the era of comparative law'.This Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law presents a truly global perspective of comparative law today. The contributors are drawn from all parts of the world to provide different perspectives on how we understand the 'law' and how it operates in practice.In substance, the Handbook contains 36 chapters covering a broad range of topics, divided under the following headings: 'Methods of Comparative Law' (Part I), 'Legal Families and Geographical Comparisons' (Part II),'Central Themes in Comparative Law' (Part III);and 'Comparative Law beyond the State' (Part IV).(This download only contains Part I and Part II) 01.0_pp_i_ii_The_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Comparative_Law 02.0_pp_iii_iii_The_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Comparative_Law 03.0_pp_iv_iv_Copyright_page 04.0_pp_v_viii_Contents 05.0_pp_ix_x_Figures 06.0_pp_xi_xii_Tables 07.0_pp_xiii_xvi_Contributors 08.0_pp_xvii_xviii_Preface 09.0_pp_xix_xxiv_Abbreviations 10.0_pp_1_12_Introduction 11.0_pp_13_208_Methods_of_Comparative_Law 11.1_pp_15_31_Traditional_Methods 11.2_pp_32_47_Historical-Jurisprudential_Methods 11.3_pp_48_71_Critical_Methods 11.4_pp_72_90_Culture_and_Comparative_Law_Methodology 11.5_pp_91_112_Linguistic_Approaches 11.6_pp_113_132_Qualitative_Fieldwork 11.7_pp_133_156_New_Institutional_Economics 11.8_pp_157_176_Empirical_Methods 11.9_pp_177_208_Machine-Learning_Methods 12.0_pp_209_384_Legal_Families_and_Geographical_Comparisons 12.1_pp_211_234_Civil_Law 12.2_pp_235_255_Common_Law 12.3_pp_256_274_Confucian_Legal_Tradition 12.4_pp_275_301_Former_Soviet_States_of_Eastern_Europe_Caucasus_and_Central_Asia 12.5_pp_302_330_Latin_America 12.6_pp_331_342_Middle_East_and_North_Africa 12.7_pp_343_366_South_Asia 12.8_pp_367_384_Sub-Saharan_Africa 13.0_pp_385_558_Central_Themes_in_Comparative_Law Comparative law is a common subject-matter of research and teaching in many universities around the world, and the twenty-first century has aptly been termed 'the era of comparative law'. This Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law presents a truly global perspective of comparative law today. The contributors are drawn from all parts of the world to provide different perspectives on how we understand the 'law' and how it operates in practice. In substance, the Handbook contains 36 chapters covering a broad range of topics, divided under the following 'Methods of Comparative Law' (Part I), 'Legal Families and Geographical Comparisons' (Part II), 'Central Themes in Comparative Law' (Part III); and 'Comparative Law beyond the State' (Part IV).